Six guys, six posty bikes, one very long trip...

The other morning I went out to get a coffee and found six old posty motorbikes parked outside the coffee shop, with six rather scruffy looking chaps sipping their lattes and cappuccinos on the outdoor chairs. Who were they? Where had they come from? Where were they going? You'd have to ask, wouldn't you...

A particularly scruffy guy, called Scruff funnily enough, turned out to be the ringleader, and explained the idea had come about after one of them had got hold of an old posty bike, and was rather enjoying riding it around the place. Before too long, they'd all managed to get hold of a posty bike each (including one which came in a box) and set off to ride them from their home base of Windsor in Sydney to Adelaide. It's been a fairly casual affair - one of them only managed to get his licence a couple of weeks before they were due to leave, and one of the bikes wasn't in going order until the morning they were due to depart.

Still, the trip's been relatively trouble free, although they've managed to get lost a couple of times on fire trails. At any rate, it certainly hasn't been blowing anyone's bank account - Scruff's been averaging around 2.5 litres per 100k's.

They've found a lot of kind people along the way who've let them sleep in their backyards... They've also found a lot of posty bike freaks, and probably a lot of old posties as well. For those who don't know, the posty bike is otherwise known as a Honda CT110, and apparently they're not the quickest bikes on the road, although as Scruff explains, if you get in behind a truck's slipstream you can get dragged along at a fairly decent speed. When there are no trucks, they just enjoy the view a bit more...

Scruff and Co are planning to enjoy the delights of the Indian Pacific train to take them from Adelaide back to Sydney, while one of their mates is going to meet them in Adelaide to pick up the bikes in his ute and drive them home. They'll give him a slab for his trouble. That's generosity!